Allison joins ABC-6 from WOIO, the CBS affiliate in Cleveland, Ohio where she co-anchored the morning and noon newscasts. Prior to that, she was an anchor/reporter in Tucson, Arizona.  She also worked as an anchor and reporter in Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana. 
An Emmy award winning journalist, Allison's work has also earned her recognition by the Associated Press, and many local organizations. While working in Arizona, she and her photographer were the only television crew ever given full access to the Arizona State Prison Complex--including the death chambers.  Allison's story of a  a notorious killer fighting for the legalization of organ donations by death row inmates and a child waiting for a life-saving donor, earned her the prestigious Edward R. Murrow award.

With well over a decade of TV experience, Allison has covered the gamut. She has reported on racial tensions in the south, drug and immigration issues along the Mexico border, tornadoes, wildfires, presidential races, the Space Shuttle Columbia tragedy, and Allison has even worked the red carpet at the Grammy Awards and CMAs!

She is a graduate of the acclaimed Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona state University.  While there she received a Society of Professional Journalists award for her reporting and the Walter Cronkite scholarship for excellence in journalism.

Allison enjoys working with children's charities and is involved with St. Jude Children's Hospital, the March of Dimes, the MS Society, the Women's Center of Rhode Island, and the Epilepsy Foundation. She lives in Providence with her husband Craig.